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Skaki , the first Greek Chess Engine : The Story ! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marountas John   
Tuesday, 27 May 2008 05:02

I was delighted when yesterday I received an email from Greg Lazarou , one of the authors of the first Greek Chess Engine ever built.

Greg and Christos Phillipoy released the first version of Skaki chess engine back in 1999, please read below their story.

Greg Lazarou :

" We built this with my friend Christos, out here in Michigan, USA, on a bet: We bet a guy from work that we can write a chess program that can beat him within a month, starting from scratch. The bet was for a coke !

Well, as you can imagine, after a few hundred hours of work and late night sessions, we had Skaki and a few side bets with other programmers and friends. All in all we ended up winning some of the side bets, but, but, but... the day of the game with our original friend (coke bet)... that Skaki version had a bug or two (or three, or 173 :-) )... and he was able to beat it, barely. He was very impressed but enjoyed his free coke a lot. That was painful!!! "

Thank you Greg, we will keep in touch !

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:32
 
ICT8 Leiden PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marountas John   
Monday, 26 May 2008 12:08

I am sure that you already anticipating for this event. So, this Friday starts the ICT8.

Stay tuned , some of the participants so far are :

Hiarcs , Rybka , Diep , Shredder , The King and more !

 

Sounds that we will have great battles this year as well. I am waiting the results of the Rybka chess engine as this one has dominated all rating list so far .

 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 May 2008 04:33
 
HIARCS 12 against humans !! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marountas John   
Monday, 26 May 2008 12:02

I was reading a post from Harvey Williamson which claims that he load Hiarcs 12 on the PlayChess server to play against various human opponents (including some titled players) .

The final score so far favoured Hiarcs 12 with a margin of +39 wins against 0 loses !

 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 May 2008 04:33
 
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